Robert Ward Johnson

Robert Ward Johnson (22 July 1814-26 July 1879) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-AR) from 4 March 1847 to 3 March 1853, succeeding Thomas Willoughby Newton, and a US Senator from 6 July 1853 to 3 March 1861, succeeding Solon Borland and preceding Charles B. Mitchel.

Biography
Robert Ward Johnson was born in Scott County, Kentucky in 1814, the nephew of Vice President Richard Mentor Johnson and Congressmen James Johnson and John Telemachus Johnson. In 1821, the family moved to the Arkansas Territory, and Robert became a lawyer in 1835. He became active in Democratic politics in Little Rock, and he served in the US House of Representatives from 1847 to 1853 and in the US Senate from 1853 to 1861. From 1862 to 1865, he served as a Senator in the Confederate Congress representing Arkansas, and the American Civil War ruined his career. He died in Little Rock in 1879.